Systems Administration

Ubuntu Server

Key Packages

  • apt-get install sun-java6-jdk ssh ntp

Configuration

  • Downloaded files are staged in /root/downloads
  • Add the proxy to /etc/environment: http_proxy="http://proxy.usq.edu.au:8000/"
  • Set the date/time:
    • Stop ntp and run: ntptime -u time.usq.edu.au
    • Add the usq time server in /etc/ntp.conf - server time.usq.edu.au
    • Start ntp

Directory Layout

  • /var/www: Web content
  • /var/svn: Subversion repos
  • /var/trac: Trac sites

Mail Server

The Postfix mail server is setup to allow the server to send emails. It's set up as a null client - meaning that it just relays outgoing emails.

  1. apt-get install postfix
    1. Set as "No Configuration"
  2. vi /etc/postfix/main.cf 
    myorigin = usq.edu.au
relayhost = usq.edu.au
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
local_transport = error:local delivery is disabled
  3. vi /etc/postfix/master.cf
    • Comment out the local delivery agent entry
  4. service postfix start

To test this, apt-get install mailutils and try to:

  1. send an email to your email address - this should work
  2. send an email to root mail root - this should be undeliverable (check using mail)
  3. Send an email from your email address to the server - this should fail

Maven

  • apt-get install maven2

Apache

  • apt-get install apache2
  • Virtual hosts are defined under /etc/apache2/sites-available/<domain name>

Tomcat

  • apt-get install tomcat5.5 libapache2-mod-jk

Subversion

  • apt-get install subversion

Trac

  • apt-get install trac

ToDo?

  • Email tickets

Migration Notes (Q3 2009)

Fascinator Trac was moved from the ice-os server and upgraded from 0.10 to 0.11.

Continuous Integration

We are using Continuum at present.

Installation notes

Please refer to ContinuumInstallation

Maven Repository

Nagios

Not currently implemented